St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-10

effective days work, no less than twenty
eight bills out of the thirty-iye on the cal
endar being passed. 1t was also an inn
portant day for the financial resources of
the state. and it has corresponding sig-
nificance for those whom the senate saws
shall pay taxes, for both the bills of Sena-
| tors Bowen, to tax certain railroad lands
and Clark, to put an additional 221, 900
acres i'll southwestern Minnesota upon the
tax list were passed. The effect of Sena-
tor Bowen's bill in placing upon the tax
list, with accounts due for number of
years past, large tracts Of land which was
originally railroad grant land is well under
stood. 1t concerns the Winona S St.
Peter, Sioux City. Minnesota construction.
and other large, rich and powerful LAND
syndicates. Should the bill pass the house,
where in past years similar bill by Judge
| Wilson has been killed. it will cause to be
taxed all the lands transferred by the
Winona 81 st. Peter, st. Paul & Chicago,
st. Paul & Sioux City and other railroad
companies to land corporations
by the methods of mortgages or
special stock. Many of these
| lands have already been declared taxable
by decision Of the supreme court Judge
Wilson says the number of acres this bill
will add to the tax list is from 1000, 600 to
5000, 900. An amendment has been added
by Mr. Bowen so as to exempt actual
settlers who have paid their taxes from the
date Of purchase from payment of back
| taxes. Mr.. Bowen succeeded in getting 1t
through under suspension OF rules and be-
yona reconsideration.
Senator Goodrich has amended this bill
to place upon the tax list lands originally
| held by the Winona d st. CroiX, in Brown
and Redwood counties, as well as other
parcels OF land, so that the parties now
owning the lands will not have to pay the
interest on the back taxes. This bill is
recommended to pass as amended and will
result in adding $40. 900 in Redwood county
and $50. 600 in Brown county to the state
treasury. Senator Clarks bill, which was
passed, repeating portion of the act
authorizing the Chicago, ST. Paul, Mime
apolis u Omaha road to purchase the Sioux
City is the one which proposes to add 22l.-
600 acres to the tax list. Donnelly's bill
! for the taxation of railroad lands has been
sent by the senate committee on taxes and
tax laws to the railroad committee, where
now is Senator Goodrich's bill. identically
| the same.
TAX TITLE MEN
| will best understand the new substitute of
tee on tax laws who has been the cham
pion of tax law reform in the senate this
winter. The substitute has been adopted
and will probably pass soon. Its provisions
briefly are:
Whenever the land has been sold within
two years prior to the date of the receipt, the
| receipt shall be stamped 'sold for taXes.''
Whenever taxes have been paid before the
record OF judgment has been entered or in
cases where the land is exempt. the judg-
ment shall be only prina face evidence of its
regularity and validity. Every judgment en-
tered for taxes which have been paid, or
when the land is exempt. shall be void, and
any sale under such judgment shall be void,
nor shall any interest Or title in the property
pass to the purchaser. In actions to cancel
sales, any duplicate receipt or stub, or any
other record in the offices of county auditor
or treasurer, shall be prima facie evidence of
the payment of taxes, but the payment shall
not be established by parole testimony only
The penalty is reduced from Is to II per cent,
and the time for redemption from two to
three years.
The honse bill eXempting ex-soldiers and
sailors from payment of poll tax, and Sena-
tor POpe'S bill to refund to purchasers at
tax sales amounts paid by them on state,
school, indemnity, agricultural or internal
improvement lands under certain circum-
stances, were both recommended to pass by
the tax committee.
TIE TARIFF QUESTION .-
was the first thing the senate undertook to
settle-at least so far as lumber, iron, salt
and wool is concerned. Senator Brown, of
Pipestone, offered joint memorial to
congress, asking that the tariff on manu-
factured lumber be abolished. When con-
denSed it reads:
Whereas, The eXorbitant price of manu-
factured lumber is one of the most serious
drawbacks to the people Of the entire
Northwest;
Whereas, The onerous system of duties
and tariff on manufactured lumber is
mainly responsible for this state of affairs
and will soon result in the destruction of
great American forests and compel the peo-
pie not only of this state but of the United
STATES to depend upon and pay tribute to
alien powers for foreign supply;
Therefore, We, the legislature of Mime
sofa, respectfully memOrialiZe congress to
abolish the duty and tariff On manufactured
lumber.
Senator Durant amended the memorial
so as to involve iron, salt and wool.
In the afternoon Senator Durant's memo
rial. asking congress to revise and reduce
the tariff, was passed. 1t includes the
amendment of Senator Edwards, asking
the Minnesota delegation to support some
measure accordingly.
The most important of the twenty-eight
bills on the calendar passed were:
Eaton-Biennial sessions of eighty days.
HalyOrson-Valued insurance policies bill.
MISUNDERSTANDING warehouse inspec-
/, tion.
Durant-Preventlng importation of impure
Illuminating oils.
Johnson, M.-sa!e of old capitol lands in
Kandiyohi county for the benefit of the pro-
posed soldiers home.
Keler-Graded bill allowing banks of SIO-
600 capital and upwards to incorporate.
Notwithstanding husband or wife to re-
ceive a third of personal property.
Judiciary Commttee-Services of operators
of threshing machines liens on grain.
Compton-EXempting engineers from jury
duty.
Edwards-Heirship Of real property by de-
scent.
Smith-Right of husband or wife to home
stead. s
Day-Gopher bounties.
In Brief Form.
The Macdonald fire escape bill came up for
a reconsideration in the senate yesterday
morning. Senator Brown protested against
giving any particular inventor any advan-
| tage. The bill was recommitted to Senator
| Edwards for amendment. Senator Edwards
had already made the amendment desired,
which was to give the managers of state in
Stitutlons the option to put in another fire es-
cape if it is equally as good as the one pro-
posed, but the amendment had not been in
serted in the printed bills.
The senate sent back to the house q mes
sage surrounding the adoption of resolution
| appointing a joint committee to inquire into
| the condition of the state agricultural col
| lege, in which Representatives Estes, Emery,
| Plowman, Reese, Powers, Heisler and Ever
| son are appointed on behalf of the house
Mr.. Donnelly did not think the senate had
right to appoint house committee and the
| message was ordered returned